Minn. Court holds for Franken.

That's good news from my home state. Governor Tim Pawlenty said Sunday he would sign an election certificate if compelled to do so. The Minn. court has ruled Franken "is entitled" to the election certificate. Now let's see if the Republican governor makes good on that.

Mahablog

...I admire the protesting Iranians. At least they give a damn. Here, politicians steal critical elections and we shrug our shoulders and pretend it didn’t happen. ...

... It’s been, what, seven months since the November elections? And has Al Franken been seated in the Senate yet? The endless dispute has nothing whatsoever to do with determining the will of the people, of course. It’s about using the courts and anything else to block the will of the people and advance a minority, extremist agenda.

National Nurses Movement has a wonderful diary at MyDD about all the single payer bills in the states (but leaves out the legislation in Maryland). Please read about all the good news in California, Pennsylvania, Colorado, Illinois, Maine, Minnesota, Missouri, and Washington.

Clearly single payer is a political winner, witness the increasing momentum in an atmosphere where the national media has airbrushed out all discussion of single payer.

The most important thing is to make sure that whatever Obama does, no federal legislation prohibit the states from creating their own single payer systems.

We seem to be making more progress in the states. We need to insist that any federal plan NOT prohibit states from doing the right thing.

Workday Minnesota: Health care bills advance at Legislature

ST. PAUL - Passage of the Minnesota Health Security Act by a key House panel is an important first step in the effort to provide health coverage for hundreds of thousands of Minnesotans, leaders of the "Make Health Happen" Coalition said.

June 19, 2008

HealthCare-Now and hundreds of other organizations is holding events nationwide, in as many as 18 cities, both celebrating the official end of slavery and challenging the corporate enslavement of our health care system. HealthCare-Now of other cities, counties, state governments and labor unions have endorsed and support HR 676, a national guaranteed health care system that will cover everybody without co-pays, deductibles, premiums, or denials.

Minnetonka, Stockholders meeting of United Health Care.
Contacts:
Joel Albers joelalbers [@] UHCAN [.] org
Ann Patterson, ann_p11 [@] yahoo [.] com
Joel Clemmer, joel [@] joelclemmer [.] org